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As you may know I am an After School elementary ESL Teacher where I work at 2 different schools. I work everyday in Allack-dong which is a small district in Yeonsan-dong. (The biggest area of Busan) and one day (Wednesdays) near Centum City. The Cosmopolitan side of Busan.
I haven't really worked in Centum city though since they have had 2 vacation days and a snow day since I have been teaching. Thats all the times but 3.

Yeonsan-dong is beginning to be robotic in nature. I walk out of my house a little bit before 1pm. I enter the subway and go to Suyeong i order to transfer. I get into the car headed for Daejeo to the tune of " happy Metro, please continue riding on this subway, its comfortable, its fast blah blah blah,..its all in Korean and after a short break for the transfer to take place we are on our way. 8 minutes later I am pushed out the gate for Yeonsan.



Now, the interesting part... Yeonsan-dong is a very interesting place to me. Its a busy intersection and a place where many things are happening. There is a phenomenon that happens almost everywhere I go in Busan but especially here in Yeonsan-dong. When going up the escalator to leave the subway people are funneling their way in order to get onto the escalator. I hate it because people are so blind by the need to hurry the F*&* up that they forget bedside manners. Old women (people over 65) have a certain self-righteous aspect to them and feel they need to get out first.

I may seem to have a condescending attitude but I am sick of watching people treat others terribly. As I said the elderly feel that since they have been through hell and back they can push their way around all the time.

Another instance, today I saw a motorist nearly hit a little girl and her mom because he had to ride on the sidewalk. Chicken express coming through... I swear if someone gets their chicken 5 minutes later it may be just a little warm and then the company should be fined for be slow and giving cold chicken... that would be a great ironic story.


Enough complaints...

I got to my school, taught my 4 classes (with no prep time or lesson planned in advance) My colleague lost her voice and I am sick so teaching kids is quite tricky at times. At 6 I walked home.

This concludes the 5 days a week and now I look forward to returning to my alma-mater Nampo-dong! Tomorrow at 8am I will leave so excited!